H.B. 5704 SBR/SBS Implications?

[Dansjeep2000]

There is already a thread going about H.B. 5704 in the Legislative Lighthouse section of this forum but it got me thinking.

This bill amends the law giving suppressors the same legal standing as machine guns in Michigan. If the Legislature is going through the trouble to amend this law is there ever going to be a better time to try and get SBR/SBS added in there too? All it would take is a stroke of the pen at this point to add it.

Anyone know what it would take to get the ball rolling?

http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=180715

[Roundballer]

It will take more than just adding it in to the current bill. There would need to be other legislation introduced to revise the penalty language in Chapter 777, sections 16m and 32. And the Big One would be to revised MCL 750.224b (http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-750-224b) because that is where it flat says that they are illegal.


Sec. 224b.

(1) A person shall not manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or possess a short-barreled shotgun or a short-barreled rifle.

(2) A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine of not more than $2,500.00, or both.

(3) This section does not apply to the sale, offering for sale, or possession of a short-barreled rifle or a short-barreled shotgun which the secretary of the treasury of the United States of America, or his or her delegate, under 26 USC, sections 5801 through 5872, or 18 USC, sections 921 through 928, has found to be a curio, relic, antique, museum piece, or collector's item not likely to be used as a weapon, but only if the person selling, offering for sale or possessing the firearm has also fully complied with section 2 or 2a of 1927 PA 372, MCL 28.422 and 28.422a.

Section 20 of chapter 16 of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 776.20, applies to this subsection.

[Dansjeep2000]

It will take more than just adding it in to the current bill. There would need to be other legislation introduced to revise the penalty language in Chapter 777, sections 16m and 32. And the Big One would be to revised MCL 750.224b (http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-750-224b) because that is where it flat says that they are illegal.


OK so its not going to be as easy as I was thinking. However I still say since they are looking at current regulations pertaining to NFA items this is the time to act.